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The anti-Taliban opposition forces say they are ready if they have to go to war with the troops in the long term Taliban which now dominates Afghanistan. However, they are also open if Taliban want to negotiate.
As reported by AFP on Monday (23/8/2021), spokesman for the anti-Taliban opposition forces, Ali Maisam Nazary, confirmed that his party was preparing for a long-term war with the Taliban. According to him, the opposition forces are always ready for a long-term war even though they are still open to negotiating options.
Nazary confirmed that preparations had been made since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan after they attacked the capital Kabul. He said thousands of Afghans had gone to Panjshir to join the options for fighting and a safe place to continue their lives.
Not only that, Ahmad Massoud son of Mujahideen Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, he said, had also gathered 9 thousand people to fight Taliban. In fact, pictures taken by AFP recently showed recruits doing fitness routines, and armored humvees driving across the valley northeast of Kabul.
However, Nazary said the main aim of the National Resistance Front forces was to avoid further bloodshed in Afghanistan. If the Taliban still do not agree to negotiations over a new system of government, then he said the opposition forces would declare war.
“The condition for a peace deal with the Taliban is decentralization – a system that guarantees social justice, equality, rights and freedoms for all,” said Nazary, head of foreign relations for the NRF, adding that if the Taliban did not agree there would be a peace deal with the Taliban, it would into “long-term conflict”.
While the Taliban control much of Afghanistan, Nazary optimistically highlights reports that local militias in several districts have begun to challenge their hardline rule and have formed ties to Massoud’s NRF.
“Massoud doesn’t give orders for these things to happen but they are all related to us,” Nazary said.
“The Taliban are overwhelmed. They can’t be everywhere at the same time. Their resources are limited. They have no support among the majority,” he continued.
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